In re Pratt

Pee Cueiam.

The petitioner was indicted on the 4th day of June, 1891, in the district court sitting in and for Baca county, for feloniously stealing two steers on the 20th day of November, 1889. Upon the trial of the cause, on June 10, 1893, he was found guilty of larceny in manner and form as charged in the indictment, and the value of the property *139stolen was found to be $16.00. He was thereupon sentenced by the court to hard labor in the penitentiary for the term of six months. He alleges that such sentence was void and his imprisonment thereunder illegal, because not authorized by any law…